Question

In each of the question sets below are two/three statements followed by two/three statements followed by two conclusions numbered I and II You have to take the given statements to be true even, if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements, disregarding commonly known facts.

Statements:-
All stars are bottles.
Some bottles are papers.
No paper is a calendar.

Conclusions:-
I. All stars being papers is a possibility.
II. No calendar is a bottle.

• A. Only conclusion I follows
• B. Only conclusion II follows
• C. Either conclusion I or conclusion II follows
• D. Neither conclusion I nor conclusion II follows
• E. Both conclusions I and conclusion II follow

Answer 1

The correct option is A Only conclusion I follows


All stars are bottles (A) + Some bottles are papers (I) = A + I = No conclusion. However, neither statement is negative. Hence all stars being papers is a possibility. Hence, conclusion I follows.
Again some bottles are papers (I) + No paper is a calendar (E) = I + E = O = some bottles are not calendars. Hence conclusion II does not follows.